Chapter 6, Working with Connectors in Logic Apps, describes in detail what a Logic App connector is. In this section, we delve deeper into the SaaS connectors, highlighting what is common between them, key features and things to know, in order to get a head start using these connectors in your workflows.

The SaaS connectors are fundamentally API apps that have been written and are managed by Microsoft, hosted in Azure. They wrap the SaaS vendor's APIs, providing a consistent interface and user experience that reduces the learning curve required to start using a new API. As new SaaS products come online, it is relatively easy for a developer to pick up the new connector and based on previous experience using other connectors, get to grips quickly with hooking up to the SaaS vendor's API.

It is true that any SaaS provider wanting to extend its reach will have an API, and certainly, it is possible to use the vendor's API directly (using the HTTP connector...